Business Value from distributed testing ensuring in an Agile environment
Pollyanna PIXTON Founder, Accelinnova President, Evolutionary Systems Director, Institute of Collaborative Leadership Pollyanna PIXTON
“Am I going to have the enough business value when my market window opens?” - Any business leader
use Agile.
Why?
iterative delivery
market ready increments
How do we deliver Business Value using Agile?
bring all stakeholders together
identify all features
Prioritize
based on business value 12
What’s Business Value?
Costs calculation Value Calculation Benefits
Business Value Costs calculation Value Calculation Benefits
Business Value Estimate calculation Value Calculation Guess
Trust any help?
Market Differentiating High Market Differentiating Low Low High Mission Critical
High Innovate Market Differentiating Low Low High Mission Critical
Innovate Parity Market Differentiating Mission Critical High Low Low
Innovate Parity Do we take this on? Market Differentiating High Do we take this on? Innovate Market Differentiating Parity Low Low High Mission Critical
calculation Value Calculation Purpose Business Value Costs and Benefits
other considerations ?
time to market
risks
flexibility Collaboration Model
external dependencies team size and experience market uncertainty domain knowledge team capacity technical uncertainty external dependencies
Considerations Purpose Business Value Costs and Benefits
Considerations Value Calculation Purpose Costs and Benefits
model not a number Build Trust?
what do we do?
when do we do it?
Protect Team Boundaries how do we decide? Protect Team Boundaries
back to Agile …
feature list …
Considerations Purpose Business Value Costs and Benefits
resolve differences
prioritize based on business value
what to add to improve measurements ?
add what to make better decisions ? Transaction Costs
my fear in iterative development?
what I want?
test first development
testers are the gatekeepers
test cases built in same order as development
Trustworthiness everyone needs to know the value
include Business Value and Purpose Purpose: Parity Business Value 85
develop in parallel
Or …
developers wait for test cases Protect Team Boundaries
one word of caution
Considerations Value Calculation Purpose Costs and Benefits
at the end of the iteration
did model inputs change?
adjust bv model run features thru model re- prioritize
now you can ask…
“Do I have enough business value to go to market?” “Will I have enough business value when my market window opens?”
Summary What makes this work?
use a storyboard tool….
Pollyanna PIXTON accelinnova.com evolutionarysystems.net +1 . 801 . 209 . 0195 p2@ppixton.com Pollyanna PIXTON